books.google.com.au - These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Society_and_Culture_in_Early_Modern_Fran.html?id=HE-LngE4fDUC&q=proverbs&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSociety and Culture in Early Modern France